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Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French writer, libertine, political activist, and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy, and pornography. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts. Some of these were published under his own name during his lifetime, but most appeared anonymously or posthumousl…

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culture · French writer and nobleman (1740–1814) · novelist · philosopher · playwright · writer · prose writer · also Marquis de Sade, Comte de Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, Sade

Born 2 June 1740 · Died 2 December 1814 · Q123867

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Il n'ya d'autre enfer pour l'homme que la bêtise ou la méchanceté de ses semblables.
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Eu só me dirijo às pessoas capazes de me entender e estas me lerão sem perigo.
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2025· 1 entry

Sep 11, 2025Documented record69% confidence

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The New Yorker: The Documents on the Marquis De Sade

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2023· 3 entries

Sep 29, 2023Documented record69% confidence

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TV Guide: Marquis de Sade's Justine - Full Cast & Crew

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Jul 30, 2023Documented record69% confidence

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Outlookindia: ‘Incest’ By Marquis De Sade: The Dark Exploration Into Abyss Of Moral Transgression And Human Nature

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Jul 25, 2023Documented record75% confidence

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The Guardian: ‘Not for the faint-hearted’: the gripping, horrifying show about the Marquis de Sade

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2021· 2 entries

Jul 30, 2021Documented record69% confidence

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TV Guide: Marquis de Sade - Full Cast & Crew

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Jul 13, 2021Documented record75% confidence

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The Guardian: €4.55m Marquis de Sade manuscript acquired for French nation

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2018· 1 entry

Jun 10, 2018Documented record75% confidence

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The Guardian: Isabelle Huppert Reads Marquis de Sade review – philosophical pain, actorly pleasure

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2017· 2 entries

Dec 18, 2017Documented record75% confidence

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The Guardian: France saves Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom from auction

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Dec 12, 2017Documented record78% confidence

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Reuters: Marquis de Sade erotic novel, or some quantum theory? You choose

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2015· 1 entry

Jan 21, 2015Documented record69% confidence

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Smithsonian Magazine: Who Was the Marquis de Sade?

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2014· 2 entries

Apr 6, 2014Documented record75% confidence

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Bloomberg L.P.: Marquis de Sade’s Stolen Sadism Manuscript Returns Home to Paris

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French novelist Pierre Guyotat said, "Sade is, in a way, our Shakespeare

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2008· 1 entry

Aug 4, 2008Documented record69% confidence

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Le Parisien: Le marquis de Sade a assouvi ses fantasmes à Arcueil

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1996· 1 entry

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Argued that writers who try to rehabilitate Sade place too much emphasis on abstract notions of transgression, linguistic play and irony, and marginalize the sexual violence at the core of his life and work

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1990· 2 entries

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Sade was published in the French Bibliothèque de la Pléiade series, which Roger Shattuck calls "an honor which corresponds to an artist being admitted into the Louvre"

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1990Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Presented Sade as a rigorous philosopher of power relationships and sexuality who was undervalued in American academia because his emphasis on violence was difficult to accept

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1981· 1 entry

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Condemned the veneration of Sade as a veneration of violence against women

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1978· 1 entry

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Argued that Sade put pornography in the service of women by claiming rights of free sexuality for them and depicting them in positions of power

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1971· 1 entry

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Roland Barthes published an influential textual analysis, Sade, Fourier, Loyola, which largely resisted psychological, social and biographical interpretations of his work

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1966· 1 entry

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The French publisher Jean-Jacques Pauvert published a 30-volume edition of his complete works

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1963· 1 entry

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Crocker wrote, "Sade speaks with the loudest voice to our time

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1951· 1 entry

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Argued that Sade placed the sex drive at the centre of his thought

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1948· 1 entry

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Became the basis for Gilbert Lely's important biography of Sade published in two volumes in 1952 and 1957

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1909· 1 entry

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Guillaume Apollinaire called him "the freest spirit that has yet existed"

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1886· 1 entry

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The sexologist Krafft-Ebing treated Sade's work as a compendium of sexual pathologies and gave the term sadism its clinical definition

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1814· 3 entries

Dec 2, 1814Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1814-12-02.

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“Eu só me dirijo às pessoas capazes de me entender e estas me lerão sem perigo.”

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“Il n'ya d'autre enfer pour l'homme que la bêtise ou la méchanceté de ses semblables.”

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1813· 1 entry

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The government ordered Coulmier to suspend all theatrical performances, balls and concerts

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1810· 1 entry

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New police orders put Sade into solitary confinement and deprived him of pens and paper

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1805· 1 entry

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Coulmier had a theater built on the premises with seating for about 200

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1801· 1 entry

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For his pornographic novels and was eventually incarcerated in the Charenton insane asylum, where he died in 1814

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1800· 1 entry

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Sade published Crimes of Love, a collection of short stories published under his own name

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1792· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1792Documented record75% confidence

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“Idea on the method for the sanctioning of laws”

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1740· 1 entry

Jun 2, 1740Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1740-06-02.

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